Weekly Update for November 26, 2025
Annual Congregational Meeting This Monday, December 1, at 7:00 PM is our Annual Congregational Meeting. The main topics of business are the votes to approve the proposed slate for Consistory and the 2026 budget. You must be a member to vote but all are welcome to attend the meeting. Proxy ballots are available through the […]
Weekly Update for November 12, 2025
Speed Record Set A huge thank you to everyone who came out last night to help with Bethlehem Journey set move in! We had around 30 people and all of the materials were put inside in about 30 minutes! That has to be a record. And then people stuck around and started on scene setup, […]
Weekly Update for November 5, 2025
Family Fun at First tonight Come get some free food and good fellowship at 6:00 PM here at church. Thanksgiving Service On November 23rd, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we will have our annual “Thanksgiving” service. Our service looks a little different on this day as we take extra time to open up the mic to […]
Weekly Update for October 22, 2025
KidZ KamP Trick or Treat Event Tonight Don’t forget tonight is a KidZ KamP event with candy, costumes and snacks! 6:00 PM at church. Bethlehem Journey Update We are “close” to filling out our cast. We do have about four main parts that still need to be filled so if you or a friend would […]
Weekly Update for October 14, 2025
Worship Team Guests this Sunday With Jan and Bill enjoying some time away, we are giving the Praise Team a week off as well. Filling in will be a group of college students from Spring Arbor University, most who have participated in a traveling worship team that led worship at Camp Selah this summer when […]
Weekly Update for October 8, 2025
Tidbits Yes, Baby Jesus needs your help We want to tell Jesus’ birth story to our community and possibly connect them with a church home this Decembewr. So go ahead, click the link and request to join the Bethlehem Journey 2025 group. It’s always more fun than you think it will be, helps you get […]
Weekly Update for October 1, 2025
Family Fun at First Tonight! Join us for pizza and out of the box thinking tonight at 6:00pm for FFF. It’s a free meal and a nice time to catch up with some friends. Thank You Service Saturday Volunteers! The Service Saturday this weekend wasn’t highly attended, but we still got quite a bit done! […]
Weekly Update for September 25, 2025
Service Saturday in Two Days! If you can spare some time this Saturday morning (9/27), we would greatly appreciate the help with some projects around church. We will start right at 8:00 AM with a meeting in the Fellowship Hall (with coffee and donuts) and divide up into project-based teams. The projects currently are 1) […]
Weekly Update for September 17, 2025
Men, Let’s Hike! October 24-25 The 2nd Annual Jordan Valley River Trail hike for the dudes is on. We’ve settled on October 24-25, 2025 (Fri/Sat) option. Thank you for those who answered the survey and our apologies if the dates don’t work (it was a split response). Remember that even if you don’t want to […]
Weekly Update for September 4, 2025
Kick-off! In 3, 2, 1… This Sunday (9/7/25) join us for a fun celebration of what God has done and is doing here at First! After worship at 9:30 AM, we will have presentation downstairs in the Fellowship Hall about ministry options and service opportunities. Whoa, whoa, whoa…you just checked out there. Don’t think you […]